update 1:30pm: approximatley 75 protestors (and bystanders?) are trapped on Market St. Police marched in from both directions. They are not being told why they can’t leave, only that they are breaking the law. Communication is only via cell phone. At this moment, the police have deployed their enormous (!!!) riot sticks and are pushing into the crowd. Police numbers are estimated 75 to 175, with 75 probably the more likely number.

I’m going dowtown Davis now. There was a CHP helicopter circleing earlier, but it’s moved off. I don’t imagine there is much more than some old people with candles, this is after all Davis, but even that is good.

update 1:00pm:the police have started a major action on market. apparently it’s packed with police and police vehicles from ? to the castro. Sounds like things are changing from active to angry.

KPFA is reporting 350 arrests in San Francisco with more expected. Multiple intersections have been blocked by protestors, stopping traffic. As far as I can tell, it has been an ongoing game of cat and mouse in which protestors take a downtown intersection, traffic is stopped, police eventually arrive in substantial force and break up the blockades. Some protestors are arrested and the rest move on another intersection. Protestors are reportedly arriving in steady numbers to replace the arrested. Rinse and repeat.

A bus driver on air is reporting that many SF areas that are not normally high-traffic are mighty slow. Repercussions throughout “the whole city”, with exception of suburban areas, from the sounds of it.

“It’s fine with me. People are dieing right now, and I shouldn’t be living my life the way I normally do”
— Lisa, school bus driver

Also a brief report that in Oakland, a BART station was shutdown when “hundreds” of 400 to 500 high school students arrived demanding free transportation to a Berkeley rally. Damn.